Browsing Leadership Research: Vol 04, No 1. (2013) by Issue Date
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Looking back, to move ahead: creating a sustainable school vision
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2012-05)This research project examined how the knowledge of the past and purpose of a school site can strengthen the creation of a sustainable school vision. It was developed in response to a new administrator coming into a school ... -
Hands-on project based learning: the key to student engagement
(Vancouver Island University, 2013)The purpose of this project is to look at ways to increase motivation and engagement of students and skill development that will help prepare students for the changing world. This project focuses on using a hands-on project ... -
Digital storytelling and students’ self-reports of intellectual engagement
(Vancouver Island University, 2013)The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of Digital storytelling (DST) on the intellectual engagement of Grade 6/7 students in their language arts classes. The six-week study adopted a pre-test and post-test ... -
Questioning student questioning: helping primary students begin to take more responsibility within the inquiry cycle (independent, small group and whole class inquiry activities)
(Vancouver Island University, 2013)This study used action research as a method to reflect on the impact of student questioning on inquiry learning, including student engagement and motivation. Conveyed through the lenses of the teacher, the parent, and most ... -
Teachers’ perceptions and practices regarding improving elementary students’ emotional intelligence skills
(Vancouver Island University, 2013)The purpose of the current study was to determine elementary school teachers’ perceptions and practices regarding the improvement of elementary school students’ intrapersonal and interpersonal emotional intelligence skills. ... -
The effect of viewing art on writing in grade four
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2013)The purpose of this study was to implement a pedagogy that would improve all students’ writing, whether academically vulnerable or not. More specifically, the pedagogy implemented was designed to focus on the two aspects ... -
My journey. My story: shifting perspective to living, being, teaching authentically
(Vancouver Island University, 2013)The following project is an autobiographical, narrative account of my life and my investigation of the correlation between a person’s authenticity and the quality of their teaching practice. Over the past year, I critically ... -
Exploring the relationship between assessment for learning and students’ experiences in nonfiction reading comprehension
(Vancouver Island University, 2013)The purpose of the current study was to explore the relationship between the use of assessment for learning as an instructional methodology and students’ experiences in nonfiction reading comprehension. The participants ... -
A small school with big culture: exploring features of a school culture conducive to innovation and change
(Vancouver Island University, 2013)The purpose of this study was to explore the school culture at Houston Secondary School. The main focus was to look for structures and features of school culture that creates an environment that embraces innovation and ... -
Conversations for moving forward: stories of inclusion
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2013)The practice of inclusion has traditionally been concerned with the education of students with special needs. However, there has been a shift by the Ministry of Education in British Columbia to explore the ideas of diversity ... -
The experience of students and teachers in project-based learning
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2013)This study uses action research to examine the experience of students and teachers as they participated in a project-based learning unit. The literature suggests that project-based learning can increase the involvement of ... -
Administrative supports that reduce teacher stress
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2013)Teacher stress and administrative supports that reduce that stress were investigated using a mixed methods exploratory approach in the Southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia. An online survey instrument was used to ... -
Professional learning through collaborative inquiry
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2013)The purpose of this project was to explore the experiences of a group of elementary school teachers, with regards to professional learning as they moved through a school-based collaborative inquiry process. As the newly ... -
Aboriginal early childhood post-secondary programs: stories of successes and challenges
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2013)Aboriginal Early Childhood Post-Secondary Programs: Stories of Successes and Challenges takes a look at Vancouver Island University Early Childhood Education programs and examines at the factors that contribute to a students ... -
Teaching fundamental movement skills to early primary learners through cross-age teaching: first steps towards physical literacy
(Vancouver Island University, 2013)The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate the relationship of physical literacy, physical education, fundamental movement skills, physical activity, cross-age teaching, and assessment for learning within a ‘community ... -
A right brain approach to reading intervention
(Vancouver Island University, 2013)The purpose of this study was to use a right hemisphere reading intervention method with three struggling primary readers. Neuroimaging research was used to help understand what is happening in the brains of non-readers. ... -
Oral language education: voicing teachers’ experiences and considering perceptions and practices
(Vancouver Island University, 2013)To contribute to our knowledge of oral language education, this study examined how the personal and professional experiences of teachers can help us to understand the relationships between teachers’ perceptions of oral ... -
Teachers’ perspectives on relational trust in their school communities
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2013-04)Trust is the foundation to a thriving learning community. The intent of this research was to investigate teachers’ perspectives on relational trust among the different members of their learning communities including teachers, ... -
Utilizing play to increase usage of self-regulation strategies
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2013-04)Self-regulation is a prevalent issue in classrooms today; students are increasingly unable to wait their turn, control inhibitions and delay gratifications. Play, among children recently, has been on a downward trend and ... -
Leading change: a self-study
(Electronic version published by Vancouver Island University, 2013-04)There are many long-held, traditional views of what school leadership looks like: principals as managers of buildings and of people, making hard decisions based on their own view of what is good for a system, then working ...
